Giving her the ketuba under the star-filled sky marries prose to poetry: Love starts with my obligation to you. My responsibility will be the soil from which our love together will flourish.
What can you expect from a man? How about what Dovid HaMelech says in tehillim when he asks the same question of G-d: “What is [puny] man that You should have anything to do with him? Yet, you have made him [so that through his own efforts] he can rise to unimagined heights… [becoming a reflector of G-dliness in this world]” (Psalms 8:5).
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